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Facebook's Android event, Oculus Rift, and more - 90 Seconds on The Verge: Friday, March 29th, 2013

2013-03-29
it's Friday March 29th 2013 i'm brian bishop I'm TC sadak and we're here at the 2013 game developers conference in san francisco and this is 90 seconds on the verge facebook is ready to reveal its latest mobile plans the company will hold an event next week to show off its quote new home on android it will reportedly be a facebook enhanced version of the operating system that will debut on a new HTC smartphone the New York Times reports that the new version will replace the android home screen with the users Facebook page instead the standard camera and messaging apps reportedly be replaced with facebook apps as well we'll be there at the event on thursday equal for developers are finally getting their hands on the oculus rift virtual reality headset a company announced that started shipping out developer kits this week they're going both to Kickstarter backers as well as those who ordered the dev kit directly from oculus founder Palmer Luckey told us that the company has logged 13,000 orders so far now it's time to see what developers will do with it I was able to play an early version of Hawkin and a demo racing game on the rift earlier this week and then I felt sick but it was a really cool kind of sick and finally sports fans may have a new live streaming option HBO GO yesterday HBO Sports president Ken Hershman said the company would be offering live sports on the streaming app by the end of the year however an executive later clarified that it didn't have any immediate plans to offer boxing an HBO mainstay of course if you want some competitive bloodsport in the meantime there's always Game of Thrones and those are today's top stories join us next week when we debut our two man show snapchat the musical
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